Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Coffee and cake

I dabbled my toes once again into the colourful waters of machine stitching and once again I packed everything away feeling rather disheartened. The thing is, it's all so fiddly diddly and it just takes me so long to even get my machine to sew properly (don't get me started on that one...) Anyway, I made myself a neighbourhood coffee house

because by the end of it all I felt this is where I needed to be...

eating cake...

and reading about what I was supposed to be doing...

Free & Easy stitch style by Poppy Treffry. Top read, just one of those books you have to have, even if you can't actually do any of it!

Hi, just hopped here from Jans ArtyATCJourney. What a lovely blog you have - very deserving of your award. I admire your stitching - I'm scared of the whole needle and thread thing ... never mind using a machine. Love what you are creating here. Penny x

Oh honey, I can feel your frustration. I can become so outdone when the threads break and in general screw up. Until I realized hey this ain't a thing someone is gonna wear it's art for goodness sake and it is more eclectic and cool to be a little messy and childish looking and then I began to sew with freedom and fun!

For quite a while now I have been following your blog because I simply adore your pieces of art. Your post this morning really made me smile. Not only because I love your coffeehouse but also because of the post title. Coffee-and-Cake is the name of my very young and little cake company. I chose the name from the German tradition to have a coffee and a cake in the afternoon. And if you would like to know my cake interpretations, please feel free to have a look here :-)

Hey these look like the wee houses I made except way nicer! lol Thought about using fabrics like you did and thought it might cause me to swear too much! Aren't you pleased you rediscovered your sewing machine?That book looks great, did you get it in Wellers?

Hi Margaret,This book looks fabulous and your creations from it are simply adorable. I am going to have to get myself a copy of that book next time I am at the bookstore! Thanks for letting us know about it!xojeanne